Most of us Americans love our country and our government. We don't like everything they do and how they do it, of course. There is a lot we would just love to change about how it does its business. We vote in an effort to change that. We vote to see our system, set up long go to be participatory and to evolve with the times, work. Democracy has benefited any number of nations, and many have seen their lives improve across the world, and as a symbols to many in the world with regards to democratic nations and their aspirations, we want to prove it can be done.

Moralizing is a form of argumentation found in many ideologies and academic systems of thought.. State interventions are bad, we were taught, because they run counter to the objective laws of the market.. The market is a social institutions that we interpret in different ways-like capitalism as a system. The market can be questioned like the German army.

The last Congo war that ended in 2003 killed 5.4 million people, the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II. The killing was directly enabled by international silence over the issue; the war was ignored and the causes obscured because governments were backing groups involved in the fighting. Now a new Congo war has begun and the silence is, again, deafening.

We, the International League of Peoples´ Struggle (ILPS), express our warmest greetings of solidarity to GABRIELA as you hold your 11th National Congress and celebrate your 28th year of activism and service to the Filipino women and the Filipino people in the struggle for national freedom and democracy.